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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-03
Notes and Opinions.

COMMERCIAL travellers will be disap-
pointed in the decision of the interstate
commerce commission that special rates
cannot be given to them without a
violation of law.
THE Boston Herald admits that Mr.
Blaine has more strength in Massachu-
sets than before the campaign of 1884,
and would probably carry several dele
gates from that state.
THE Ohio and Maryland democrats
refuse to wear President Cleveland's
mask of civil service reform. Those of
Maryland in their platform denounce
life-tenure for oflice-holders.
TIE theory of the astronomers that
in the course of few million years the
sun will not have enough heat to sus-
tain life on this planet has noperceptible
effect on a thermometer hung in the
shade. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
ONO holds a state election in Oc-
tober this year, contrary to the state
ment that has been made in many
quarters. The law changing the time
of voting in that state from October to
November applies only TO years when
president is to be chosen.
A BITTER attack by General Beatty
of Ohio upon Mr.. Blaine, published in
the Toledo Bee, gives much comfort to
the mugwump papers. General Beatty
will not advance the interests of SEN
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-03
The Undesirable Immigrants.

The number of immigrants arriving
in this country for the year ending July
l aggregated almost 100000, against a
little over 100000 the previous year.
OF the half million newcomers about
10000 were Germans, 70 900 from En-
gland and Wales, 70 900 from Ireland,
10000 from Norway and Sweden and
10000 Italians. 1t is found that the
character of the immigration has
changed very much within few years.
Formerly good proportion of the i'm
migrants came to this country with
some means, or were willing to adapt
themselves to the necessities of their
situation, going TO work with a de-
termination to improve their condition
and generally succeeding. The I'M
skilled laborers had no other choice
than to occupy such positions as they
were qualified to fill, each attaining his
proper level according to ability joined
with inclination. They were meas
urably content with these conditions,
and to afterward improve their status
through knowledge and merit. Now
the bulk of immigrants are INDECENT
and illiterate, and are imbued with
crude and impracticable theories con-
corning social and political relations
which are antagonistic to the principles
of constitutional government. Many
of them are socialistic democrats, an
archists, communists and nihilists, ac-
cording to the localities whence they
come. A large number are not con-
tent with the industrial conditions they
find here, but soon begin an unreason-
able agitation to revolutionize the labor
situation. At the present time Poland
and Hungary probably send the most
degraded and dangerous classes of
laborers, Italy being next in that order.
France contributes the fewest immi-
grants. Great Britain is the only coun-
try whose authorities actually deport
paupers, lunatics and criminals to our
shores. In other countries this des-
picable work is done by relatives who
seek to rid themselves of helpless and
undesirable dependents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-03

No intelligent and iust-minded person
fails to have proper appreciation of
the labors of the farmer, of the me-
chanic, or of the common working
men, for these are among the most i'm
portant and valuable of producers, but
they are not the only classes of the
worlds workers who are to be held in
high esteem. The value of intellectual
and moral products-of the ability to
produce wealth, maintain railroads, fac
tories, furnaces and great enterprises
of all kinds-are all as substantial, as
necessary and as beneficial as food for
the body or the things that are made
by human hands.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-03
The Serpent and the Bridge.

The story from Isle La Motto that the
sea-serpent had been seen by several
honest sober people, should be classed with
the one started recently by an Alburgh wag.
II runs thusly: One dark, still night while
Dan Hazen, the bridge-tender, was sitting in
the door of his $500 residence wondering to
himself who would take in the most money
tomorrow, he or Jim, he was somewhat
startled at the rushing of water, and, ON
peeping by the corner of his house, he saw
at some distance great commotion, and at
once began to open the draw that the yacht,
as he supposed, might pass through. The
draw being opened he walked back and
waited few seconds until the thing came
nearly opposite him, when, TO his astonsh-
ment, it proved not to be a boat After his
hair had ceased rising on end he recov-
cred his senses sufficiently TO cry out:
Who's there?' and on receiving an III
sir the following dialogue is said to have
taken place; Bridge-tender; Where are
you gong?' Sea-serpent: | am after the
first selectman. Will you tell me where he
lives? Bridge-tender: Bout half a mile
south of here, Sea-serpent: How much
are you going to charge me to go through
the draw Bridge-tender: Twenty-Five
cents Sea-serpent: Won't pay it, and
the thing gave his tail twist in the water,
and when it went out of sight it was headed
towards John O'Neill's; and as that gentle
man has not seen anything of it and as the
old scow was all right the next morning, 1t
is supposed it went back into the broad lake
by the way of the gut "-MeSSenger.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-03

MONSIEUR DEMOLINARI, one of the
well-known philanthropists and pub
licsts of Paris, and an enthusiastic
supporter of schemes of arbitration to
settle national disputes, has published
pamphlet containing the record of the
project of an association for creating a
so-called league of neutrals. This is re-
garded sufficiently important to receive
Geographic summary of over two
columns in the Times. His idea is that
countries which have the most to lose
by the wars of others should associate
themselves for the purpose of offering
their combined armed assistance to any
country which should be wantonly
threatened with war from another.
England he puts first, the others be-
ing Holland, Belgium, Denmark and
Switzerland. The armies of these
countries in peace number nearly half
a million and in time of war over
million men. The combined naval
power would be very great. Thus, he
says, in 1875 and 1887 the league could
have offered its force to France when
she was threatened by Germany, eff
fectually preventing Germany from
making hostile move. M. Demolinari
claims that the knowledge that such a
tremendous united force was ready to
be thrown into the scale against any
nation declaring war would ultimately
render war in Europe impossible and
would bring about general disarma-
ment.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-03

WORTH MoRE.-An old-fashioned chap,
who keeps a little drugstore in Cleveland,
had about two dozen bottles of Hoods Sarsa-
parilla ON hand in April, and one morning a
drummer, who had been posted by the boys,
entered the store and said: " See here. |
am man who goes straight to business
III give you a dollar and half bottle for
that Sarsaparilla." "Dolar and a half2"
Well, say two dollars" The old man
turned white as death, lost his voice for
minute, and then hoarsely whspered
You can't have it. Wars broke out
somewhere, and Hoods Sarsaparilla is
worth two and a half"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-03

CHARLES II. REED, Guiteau's counsel,
was examined at Bellevue hospital and pro-
nounced insane
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-03-03
Long and Short Days.

At London, Eng. and Bremen. Prus-
sia. the longest day has sixteen and a
half hours. At Stockholm, Sweden,
the longest day has eighteen and a
half hours. At Hamburg, in Germany.
and Dantzic, in Prussia, the longest
day has seventeen hours. At st. Pc
tcrsburg, Russia, and TobOlsk. in Si-
IBERIA, the longest day has nineteen
hours and the shortest five. At Tornea,
in Finland, the longest day has twen-
ty-onc hours and half. and the short
est two hours and half. At Ward
fuys. in Norway. the day lasts from
May q to July p, without interrupt
ton: and at Spitsbergen the longest
day is three and half months. At
New York the longest day. June 10.
has fourteen hours and fifty-six min
utcs; at Montreal, fifteen and half
hours. School Supplement.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-03-03
A Powerful New Pistol.

/ was recently present at the trials
made with new pistol invented by
Mr.. Marcus. a distinguished mechan-
zeal engineer. In this invention the
use of a cartridge is dispensed with.
the bullet itself being prepared with
an explosive. But. in spite of this ex-
plosiye nature of the bullet. IFS shape is
not altered by the explosion. The eN-
plosion is initiated by a simple mechan-
ism provided in the interior of the pis-
tol. The experiments were made with
a single-barrel pistolet (the Barrel being
four centimeters long and its caliber
six miliimeters). At a range OF thirty
PAGES three-quarter inch wooden
board was pierced by the bullet. Then
a pis.o; with a silnpie-actins magazine.
containing twelve bullets. was tried.
allowing the discharge of forty shots
per ninute.-Tienaa Cor. Science.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-03-03
GOING TO BED.
A MischievOus Editor Gives Away the Sc.
cret of His Mode of Retiring.

A Mischievous Editor Gives Away the Sc.
cret of His Mode of Retiring.
Speaking of how Il man goes to bed,
an exchange say: "There's where {:
man has the advantage. He can I'm.
dress in cold room and have his bed
warm before woman has her hair.
pins out and her shoes untied.'' That
is how it looks in print, and this is how
it looks in reality: Il am going to
bed, my dear, it is 1890" No reply.
NOW, John, You are always late in
the morning. Do 60 to bed.'' "Yes.
in a minute" he replies, as he turns
the paper wrong side out and begins a
lengthy article headed: 1.-The Louisiana
MIDDLE" Fifteen minutes later she
calls from the bedroom: John, come
to bed and don't keep the gas burning
here all night" and, murmuring some
thing about the ''bill being big enough
now." she crecps beneath the cold
sheets. while John sits placidly on, his
feet across the piano stool and Il cigar
in his mouth. BY and by he rises,
yawns, stretches himself, throws the
paper on the floor and proceeds to that
vigorous exercise, shaking down the
coal stove. just at this stage not al
together pleasant voice inquiries: "For
PHYS sake, amt You ready for bed
YETI" 'Yes, yes. I'm coming; why
don't you let a fellow alone9" Then
L. I,I
When that is supplied and ratified into
the stove he sits down to warm his
feet. Next he slowly begins to undress,
and as he stands scratching himself and
absently gazing on the last garment
dangling over the back of the chair. he
remembers that the clock is not wound
vet. When this is attended to he Waits
a drink of water, and away he PROM
enades to the kitchen. OF course. when
he returns his skin resembles that OF Il
picked chicken, and once more he seats
himself before the fire for the last
warm-up. As the clock strikes twelve
he turns out the gas and with Il flop of
the bed-clOthes and few spasmodic
shivcrs he subSides-nO, not yet; he
forgot to see if the front door was
locked. and another flop from the bed
clothes brings forth the remark:
GOOD gracious. if that man amt
enough to try the patience of Job"
Setting her teeth hard, she awaits the
final flop. with the accompanying blast
of cold air. and then quietly inquiries
if he is settled for the night, to which
he replies muttering: ..Well, you
amt the proyokingest woman. "-East-
ern 4rgus-
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-03-03
HUMOROUS.

yes" observed Mrs. Crap. 1--WE
kinder got tired of gas. and now we're
goin' to have the house lit with clam
destine electric light"
Lord Tennyson persists in his de-
termination to write poem to the
Battenbcrg baby. 1t will probably be
a boo-colic production.
-Wife-''You talked in your sleep
last night, John, and you mentioned
mothers name" Husband-.'Thats SO?
1t must have been that mince-pie ate
before going to bed. "-Harpcr's Bazar.
Footprints in Chicago
Great men by their lives leave footprints
In the sands Of time, We know:
But their marks are slight compared to
Foot prints in Chicago snow.
Merchant Traveller.
This country consumed eighty-One
and one-quarter tons Of quinine during
the last year. And yet even that great
dose was not able to keep the country
from shaking.-Boston Post.
Shetland do you love me,
George?' He Ga medical studenD-
"Yes, from my sixth left rib" "Sirr'
He-'I mean, my dear. from the bot
tom of my heart. "-1id-Bits.
lis this a trunk line?" asked the
Summer girl at the railway station.
NO." replied the ticket agent, lit is
a branch" ''Oh, I'm SO sorry, for
wanted to take four trunks along with
mer'-N. y. Witness.
"A fashionable lady, in boasting of
her new "palatial residence" said that
the windows were all of stained glass.
'.That's too bad!' cried her mother;
"but won't soap and turpentinc take
the stains ut?"-Boston Post.
Mistress and maid" Where have
you been Jane?'' 1--WE been to a
meeting of the Girls Friendly Society.
ma am" "Well, and what did the
lady say to you?'' please, ma Fam.
she said wasn't to give you warning.
as meant to. She said that l was to
look upon you rs my thOrn-and bear
itr'-London Punch.
Agent Selling preparation for re-
moving stains from clothing)-"I have
got here Servant (who responds
to the agents ring)-" Excuse me.
please; but we are in great trouble
here. to-day. The gentleman of the
house has been blow up in an explo-
sion." A" Hal hurt much?' S.
"Blown to atoms. Only a grease-spOt
left of him." A" Ha! Only grease
spot, you say? Well, here's a bottle of
my champion Eradicator which will re-
move that grease spot in two minutes"
(Mass.) Enterprise.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-03-03
MEXICAN GIRLS.
How the Pudding SenOritas Of Our Sister
Republic Are Educated.

How the Pudding SenOritas OF Our Sister
Republic Are Educated.
The scholastic course of Mexican
girl of aristocratic family is finished
before she is fifteen, at which age she
is considered '.marriageable." The
wife of General Santa Anna was
welded to that willy ruler whom Amer
leans remember as ''the Butcher Of the
Alamo" when only thirteen-and nu-
merous brides in these later days are
scarcely older. 1t must be remembered,
however, that girls mature early in the
tropics-aDd in corresponding ratio
grow old much sooner than in the
colder North. Though Mexico abounds
in single women of mature age, one
never hears of IAN old maid" for to
remain forever unmarried entails no
such stigma here as attaches to UNI
mated women of other lands. If her
lonely condition is alluded to by these
polite people. they speak of her with
some kindly phrase indicating that fla
pobracita'' (the poor. dear thinc) has
been hard 10 please
The custom of engaging accomplished
foreign governesses or native Tutors to
instruct young girls at home is gaining
ground among wealthy families in
Mexico. because to send a budding
senorita. over ten years of age, to a
day-school-even in the family car
riage, accompanied by maid who
never loses sight of her till she is safely
returned to the parental casa-is looked
upon rs an alarming stretch of the pro-
piieties. In the days of conventual
institutions. the daughters of well-to-do
parents were usually placed in charge
of the gentle sisterhood. generally enc
tering the convent schools at an early
age and remaining until old enough to
marry. Since the banishment of nuns
and monks from Mexico. great many
private schools and seminaries have
been established, wherein girls are
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-03-03
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

|
Paul Tilton. SON Of Theodore III
ton. is making . reputation rs an artist
in Rome.
Hugh O. Northcote, son of the late
Lord Iddcsle;sh. is banker in New
York. and son-in-law Of Hamilton
Fish.
1t is said that the papers and MSS.
OF his father which Colonel Fred Grant
is editing will make two or three vol
umes of the size of the Generals
'.Memoirs."
"A Madrid scholar, Senior Carulla,
who has been for many years at work
on rhymed version of the Bible, has
completed his task. The work contains
26O. 900 verses.
dwight L. Moody, speaking before
two thousand people in Chicago, sud-
denly broke off with: "Will the usher
please let in a little air? One man has
got to sleep; never can talk while =
man is asleep"
If you do not read the daily Times
it will cost you three times the time and
wasted time to take the time to study
the news in papers that take three times
the time to give the spirit of the times
% Sata San. a young Japanese lady
writer, has been taken on the editorial
staff of one of the best papers in the
City of Toxic. This is the first woman
in the kingdom who has be en- admitted
within the circle of journalism.
Edward Gould, youngest son OF
Jay Gould. has been taught practical
shorthand writing, type-writing, etc..
until he is now one of the most prof.
cient stenographers and type-writers in
the United States.-N. Y. Herald.
Miss Alice j. Shaw is a whistling
soloist who recently gave a perform
ance in Steinway Hall. New York.
Miss Ella Chamberlain is also distin-
guishe& whistler, and both are public
school teachers and belong to the
Teachers Association of New York
City.-M. Y. Tribune.
Mr.. Joseph w. Drexel, who has
retired from business and lives COM
fOrtably on his accumulated fortune i'm
New York. began life on salary Of
one dollar week. He spent seventy
five cents of his first weeks earnings
for box of water-colors, and now in
later years exercises the same early
taste for pictures as an accomplished
amateur photogral'her.-M. y. Mail.
"A literary man says: IL have
surely discovered the author of The
Breadwinners.' 1t is John Hay, as has
been asserted. You remember the pc
culiar name of Of1it in the book. Well.
q man of that name appears in the
early chapters of the life of Lincoln
which Hay and Nicolay are publishing
in the Century. mentioned the coin
cidence to one of the assistant editors
of the magazine and he admitted, on
being pressed hard. that John Hay
wrote the much-talked-about novel;
Chicago Herald.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-03-03
TO THE coMPosIToR.

% much-reviled, harshly scolded one,
I-of the pen humble wielder-can
Witness that you with my essays have been
very patient, long for5earing man.
For many word omitted you We supplied,
And many word superfiuous left out,
And many an involved paragraph released,
And many line parenthesised about.
And oh, what thanks for semicolons, and
Whole colons, too, to you, my friend, be-
long
Help which from readers mine the fact has kept
That in punctuation am not strong.
True, once you cruelty - boiled" my heroine
When she but - toiled,' and once saw
My hero kicked" instead Of kissed" and
You made me lay down ''jaw'' in place OF
"iaw.''
But forgive you, and your cause espouse.
Let others frown at you, Fam your friend,
And will be even when-I fear too soon
My literary labors end.
Margaret Eytiage, IN Horper's Boar.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-03-03

duly misunderstanding to Mexican
ideas. The acme of their accomplish
ments is to become good inguists and
excellent musicians and to acquire a
smattering of history and general liter
AZURE. placing them about on . par
with the corresponding class in France
and Spain. But they are never cult
ured to the Bostonian point in the
classics or occult sciences, their simple
requirements being such as shine to
best advantage in the home circles.
Mexican ladies Of high degree are
never educated with view to utilizing
their accomplishments for gaining a
livelihood in any possible reverse Of
fortune. for under no circumstances
are they expected to assist in their own
support. The old Spanish custom
which obliges gentlemen to provide for
all their destitute female relatives and
to shield them absolutely from contact
with the world, still prevails among the
upper classes, Notwithstanding the fact
that nearly century of foreign wars
and internal revolutions have made it
difficult task in many instances and
forever debarred from matrimony the
scions of proud but impoverished
houses.
As rule, pater familias does not en-
courage much reading of books-ex-
cept of a religious character-among
the women of his flock, and certainly
not the general run of newspapers such
rs are found in every Northern family.
He believes not only that ga little
knowledge is dangerous thing" and
might lead to that pernicious ''strong-
mindedness" which he imagines afflicts
most ladies in the United States-but
that literally ignorance is bliss in
their appointed sphere. If not mar
ried at once when escaped from school
restraints, sometimes the mother or
some elderly female relative I'M
dertakes to instruct the daughter
in those domestic duties which matri-
mony entails, becausc-whethe- rich or
poor-on the day of her marriage she
will 90 to home of her own. which
the expectant bridegroom must previ-
ously prepare. To that end she is
taught to prepare delicacies for the
sick and refreshing medicinal drinks,
to make dulc,es. jellies and dainty des-
serts; and occasionally, by way of
practice, is given for Il season the en-
tire management of her fathers house.
hold. have heard of cases where she
has even ordered all the provisions,
paid the servants. provided ratiOns for
the carriage horses and looked over the
coachman's bills for shoeing. etc.-in
short, kept a thorough account of all
domestic expenditures. but these in
stances are extremely rare.
Domestic life among the upper class
es in Mexico is charmingly simple. and
really worthy Of imitation as contrast
ed with the lives of some of our $50
ciety ladies" with their summers at
watering places and winters in Europe.
their neglected homes and ceaseless
round of expensive gayety. A ''profes-
sional beauty would not be tolerated
here in good society, and married
belle would speedily find herself ostra-
cized as an improper character
Fannie u. Ward, in MilUaukee Sentinel.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-03-03

Thus, by taking off six dollars, the
peddler would still be Sin" twelve dol
lars and fifty-five cents. If by accident
the farmer discovered the cheat, the
peddler would simply say he made a
mistake in counting in the year with
the rest of the items, and the unsus-
pecting farmer would be satisfied
american Hebre,y.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-03-03
Favoring the New Version.

"Billinghast has failed again"
'.You don't say so. For how much?"
twenty-five thousand dollars"
THAT'S the third time, isn't it? He
gets richer every time"
'.Yes. He believes in the old proyerb:
If at first you don't succeed, fail. fail
again. Philadelphia Call.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-03-03

Men are strange creatures. They
will waste an hour hunting cc1iar
button instead of having an extra SUP
ply and lctting their wife and the miss
ing one. You never see woman look
for the pin she drops. Her husband
finds it wien he walks around In his
bare feet SduQertics Telegraph.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-03-03

The instructor in gymnastics at
Brown has discovered the weight and
height of the average student to be as
follows: Five feet or under, 103 to 10S
pounds; 3 feet inches, 119 to 125; 5
feet z inches, 13S to 40; 5 feet 3
inches. 40 to 150; feet 9 inches. $50
to 1872; 5 feet 10 inches, 162 TO i72; 8
feet II inches, 172 to 1872: feet or
over. 1872 to 1872.